Education Project
Monitoring the privatization of public education – and resistance to it
With a wide circle of research associates representing all aspects of the education sector, accessible research, case studies and thoughtful commentary and analysis, the Education Project provides a welcome—and often humorous—balance to the rhetoric of market-based education reform that continues to erode our public education system at all levels.
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2002
September 11th and My ESL Class September 11th has marked us all. Many historians have used World War I to mark the beginning of the twentieth century. Perhaps future historians…
Public Money–Without Public Accountability
Equity in Education Tax Credit In a long line of market-based reforms to education, the Ontario government is now offering tax incentives for citizens who wish to explore private educational…
But It’s Only A Tool
The Politics of Technology and Education Reform This collection pushes the reader to think beyond the mantra “it’s only a tool,” commonly used to neutralize discussions about new technologies in…
Challenging McWorld
First Edition Today’s youth live, communicate and act in a wired world of corporate logos,symbols and branding. “McWorld” is the symbolic term often used to capture the new realities of…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2001
DIRT(1) Cheap: Students for sale and the tilting of a scale Abstract This paper illustrates how parents, teachers and school administrators have been quietly and unknowingly enlisted as accomplices in…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2001
Ontario Students as a Means to the Government’s Ends In high-risk sites like Ontario, traditional forms of liberal education are being replaced by policies mandating teaching and learning activities that…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2001
Class size in Alberta–an ongoing debate! The debate over class size in Alberta’s schools has sharpened significantly in the last few months. It has set parents and teachers against government….
Missing Pieces II
An Alternative Guide to Canadian Post-Secondary Education Download 223.99 KB 268 pages…
Provincial policies creating disparities in access to higher education: Report
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Ottawa—A patchwork quilt of provincial policies is creating massive imbalances in educational opportunity across Canada, according to an annual report released today by the Canadian…
Les politiques provinciales créent des disparités d’accès aux études supérieures
CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. Ottawa – Selon un rapport annuel publié aujourd’hui par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA), la mosaïque des politiques provinciales crée un énorme…
E-Commerce vs. E-Commons
Communications in the Public Interest Download 1.65 MB228 pages From privacy issues to intellectual property, from universal access to union activism, the essays contained in this book challenge the rush…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2001
Public Education and Moral Monsters: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky It is startling to learn that amidst the volumes of literature which addresses current trends in public education, a serious…
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